WEATHER AND MILES
CYCLONE AREA LIMITED
PAGO PAGO SOUTHWARDS
'<'■ Inquiries have been made why, if a severe storm is crosisng the line of flight, the Clipper Ship should be able to make a start but not able to' complete the journey to Auckland.
The answer is that the Pacific is a great ocean, and that even a very extensive storm area affects only a comparatively small-portion of it. The storm which developed in the neighbourhood of the New Hebrides between Friday and Monday (during which interval weather reports were not received) is moving down towards New Zealand, and that particular storm would affect the Pago Pago-Auckland stage only. The ocean to the north may be quite unaffected by this storm, or it may have storm systems of its own. As the speed of air travel, 150 miles per hour at normal cruising speed, is very much greater than the rate of travel of the storm centre, which is from "100 miles a day to 800 miles a day in the case of exceptional storms, the flying-boat, if it were to continue its journey south from Pago Pago to Auckland, would rapidly overhaul the storm.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 71, 25 March 1937, Page 12
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